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History of English:History of English:
Language Change
Language Change
and Development and DevelopmentNigel Musk
Nigel Musk
Teachers' Programme 61
Teachers' Programme 61--90 hp90 hp
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epar t men t o f C u lt ure & C ommun i ca ti on D epar t men t o f C u lt ure & C ommun i ca ti on 1Language Change & Development
1Language
Change
Development
2. Old English3. Middle English4. Early Modern EnglishLanguage Variation & ChangeLanguage Variation & Change
Language variation is a prerequisite for changeTh i l l i ti ithi it i tTh ere i s a l ways l anguage var i a ti on w ithi n a commun it y or soc i e t y for many different (social) reasons: differing needs (occupation leisure interests etc ) differing needs (occupation leisure interests etc differing social standing (sociolects) differing contacts with other communities e g with differing differing contacts with other communities e .g with differing regional varieties (dialects) & languages But even one and the same person shows a tendency to speakBut even one and the same person shows a tendency to speak (and write) differently in different social contexts/constellationsVariation is facilitated b
y the relative ease of g eo g ra p hical and yggp social mobility(mobility isn't a new phenomenon!)Change as a Social Phenomenon
Change as a Social Phenomenon
Language change is most often described in linguistic terms, yet language and language change is essentially a SOCIALlanguage
and language change is essentially aSOCIAL
phenomenon. Both language and language change arise throu g h communication. g People tend to adjust their language to become more like each other (accommodation) Accommodating to others can operate across phonology (accent), lexis(vocabulary), grammar(morphology & syntax) and discourse(discursive features) Also at a societal level, the more social upheaval, the more li i ti hli ngu i s ti c c h angeCategories of ChangeCategories of Change
Distinction
often made betweenDistinction
often made between Internal change - including the normal "drift of language"External change - due to language contact
Aspects of Language Subject to
Aspects of Language Subject toAspects
ofLanguage
Subject
toAspects
ofLanguage
Subject
toChangeChange
PhonologyLexis
(vocabulary) Lexis (vocabulary)Morphology
GSyntaxDi
G rammar Di scourseInternal Change:
Internal Change: PhonologyPhonology
A speaker tends not to make more effort than is necessary A speaker tends not to make more effort than is necessary This can lead for example to co-articulation effects becoming permanent.Therefore a distinction can be made between:
conditioned(or combinatory) change, e.g. through co- articulation effects unconditioned(or spontaneous) changeConditioned Phonological
Conditioned PhonologicalConditioned
Phonological
Conditioned
Phonological
Change Change 11
Assimilation- adjacent sounds become more alike
OE gǀdspell'good news' : gospel
Palatalisationof velar consonants before front vowels: O OS G e.g. cheese O OS G yellowOE. geolu= OS. gelo, Du. gel, G. gelb Modern distinction in past tense /d/ : /t/ : /ųd/ Tendency for intervocalic consonants to become voiced(vowels are always voiced) Conditioned PhonologicalConditioned PhonologicalConditionedPhonological
Conditioned
Phonological
Change Change 22
Simplification of consonant clusters
(elision)Simplification
of consonant clusters (elision)OE : ModE
fdige: lady niht:night But note that question words retained breathiness longer: what, when, where camb,comb: comb, wamb,womb: wombModern example: yod-dropping, e.g. suit, lute
Conditioned Phonological
Conditioned PhonologicalConditioned
Phonological
Conditioned
Phonological
Change Change 33
Other phoneme losses
Reduction & loss of final unstressed vowelsOE sunu: sonOE sunne: sunOO
E mǀna: moon
OE steorra: star
includes vowels in plurals e.g. OE dagas: days with vowel reduction (weakening) first to -e and then -ԥ and then lost Unconditioned PhonologicalUnconditioned PhonologicalUnconditionedPhonological
Unconditioned
Phonological
Change 1Change 1
OE brid(d) : bird,
OE waeps(variation in OE too: waesp) : wasp
hros(cf. OE hors, ON hross,Swruss) : horseModern example: pretty(good) - 'purty' (good)
Unconditioned Phonological
Unconditioned PhonologicalUnconditioned
Phonological
Unconditioned
Phonological
Change 2Change 2
Epenthesis- addition of a phoneme in the middle of a worde.g. OE aemtig: emptyOE spin(e)l: spindle,
OE þunor: thunder
Modern examples:
glottal stop something sțm glottal stop something sțm epenthetic vowel [Ǩ]: in ScE/IrEfilm[fǹlǨm] Unconditioned PhonologicalUnconditioned PhonologicalUnconditionedPhonological
Unconditioned
Phonological
Change Change 33
Sound shifts
Sound "laws" whereby the same phoneme changes in all words (under the same conditions - stress, position, etc.)Tendency to preserve symmetry
of phonological symmetry of phonological system - to optimise the p honolo g ical s p ace pg p Unconditioned PhonologicalUnconditioned PhonologicalUnconditionedPhonological
Unconditioned
Phonological
Change 4Change 4
Chain shifts
Push (to avoid merging) or pull effects(to mergers) desk desk bossesbusses head bat bl k [ae]Northern Cities Chain Shift
bl oc k socksNorthern
Cities
Chain ShiftUnconditioned Phonological
Unconditioned PhonologicalUnconditioned
Phonological
Unconditioned
Phonological
Change Change 55
Mergers of phonemes
Front close vowels /i/ : /y/ (unrounding)
OE lyljtel: little
OE yfel: evil
OE synn: sin
Great vowel shift included one merger
Compare:
speak spǪ ɕk and feed feɕd ]inMECompare:
speak spǪ ɕk and feed feɕd in ME Disadvantages of mergers: more homonymsarise = potential detriment to communication e.g. to : two: too; their: there; son(OE sunu) : sun(sunne)Internal Change: Lexis
Internal Change: Lexis 11
Reasons for lexical change
New ideas and innovations give rise to new words
Through polysemy- words have different or multiple meanings, e.g. common words like get, goOver time one or more meanings may fall out of use and newOver time one or more meanings may fall out of use and new meanings develop By association with other words, e.g. metaphors, metonymyTidtb tiffi dththtt T o avo id t a b oo, nega ti ve, o ff ens i ve wor d s or th ose th a t are t oo direct -euphemisms Reasons for lexical change 1Reasons for lexical change 1 Metaphors -association by similaritytoast[LME] There is a connection between the toast you eat and the toast you make with a raised glass. Toast is based on Latin torrere 'to parch, scorch, dry up', the source also of torrid [E17th], and torrent [LME] a rushing or 'boiling' flow of water. 'To pa r c h' w as t h e ea rli est m ea nin g o f t h e En g li s h w o r d, a n d be f o r epa c as t e ea est ea g o t e g s o d, a d be o elong it was used to describe browning bread in front of a fire. Drinking toasts goes back to the late 17th century, and originated in the practice whereby a drinker would name a ladyoriginated
in the practice whereby a drinker would name a lady and request that all the people present drink her health. The idea was that the lady's name flavoured the drink like the pieces of spiced toast that people sometimes added to wine in thoseof spiced toast that people sometimes added to wine in those days. Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins